Mindwalk (1990)

Sam Waterston: Jack Edwards

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• Jack : American voters want their leaders to be dumber than they are. They figure they'll do less harm that way.

• Jack : Are you gonna help me in this, or are you gonna leave me stranded out here in this argument by myself?

  Thomas : I'm gonna leave you stranded. I'm gonna leave you stranded.

• Jack : ...but to blame all this on a French philosopher who's been dead for 300 years, isn't that a little out of proportion? Maybe even a little eccentric?

  Sonia : No. Not if I'm right.

• Jack : An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."

• Jack : It's the art of bringing people to agree on a certain course of action. If that course of action succeeds, the people are satisfied. If not, they're not. It's as simple as that. If it works, it's good. Period.

  Thomas : Isn't that exactly what you said 'why politics doesn't work anymore'? That politics, you said, needed to become the 'art of the impossible'?

  Jack : Whose side are you on?

  Thomas : Hers, obviously. She's intelligent, gracious and more attractive.